And welcome to this wikipedia in Kichwa. If you would like to do something here but you do not speak kichwa, there's a lot you can do. As a encyclopaedia is usually based on text, it is suitable that new articles contain at least one or two sentences in kichwa (and usually they should not contain any text in other languages, except for a short citation of a writer or poet in his/her own language or such relevant things). If you don't speak kichwa, there are lots of things you can still write in kichwa, using the following sentences :

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According to the directives given by official regulators of the kichwa language in Ecuador (National academy of the Kichwa language and National direction of bilingual education), the names of the places should stay with their original writing even if this writing includes non-kichwa letters[1]. The best choice for places with official names in Spanish-speaking countries (e.g. for cities in Ecuador or other spanish-speaking countries) is to use the Spanish official name for the city. This applies even if the name of this city or place comes from the kichwa or quechua (e.g. Ingapirca, Ambato, Quito, Otavalo etc.). For countries outside the Spanish-speaking countries, even though there is no official rule on that particular point, one may use the native name (e.g. New York, Köln etc.).

As for places, the names of people (particularly if they are not in kichwa) should be followed by a kichwa word that explains their occupation or why they are remarkable. The template {{Wp/qug/Pun}} can be used as follows to convert the dates to kichwa : {{Wp/qug/Pun|14|03|1879}} for March 14, 1879. Ex. :